Who else here is looking forward to all (or more likely, at least part) of this annual tradition?

While I won't be able to watch a large chunk of the marathon, it's still cool to be able to record and watch certain favorite episodes (though I also always seem to find an episode or two that I'd never seen or that I hadn't seen in a long time). Also, if one still can't go to sleep after returning from a New Year's party, the marathon provides perhaps the only good thing to watch that late at night after the New Year's shows have long since ended.

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One of my favorite series ever made. I watch every marathon that I see on. I looked at the box set for this awhile back and was saddened by the price. I want it on dvd so bad, but alas my wallet is too empty!

I have so many favorite episodes. These stories were so well written that they did not need any special effects to make them creepy or eerie.
I also watch the version that was out in the 80s, but it does not have the same charm as the original.

Yeah, I'm having some people over through the night. There's a decent chance we'll watch an episode or two.

I always enjoy seeing "Time Enough at Last," personally, but I'm open to something new.

Heh, also, I was horrified that this thread was about a different sort of Twilight marathon when my eyes initially passed over it. This is much better.

Time Enough At Last... my favorite as well. You have good taste, friend.

Yeah, I used to watch SCI-FI's bi-annual marathon religiously. I own the boxset now so I no longer see any need. Besides, the series was always heavily edited for network play in the past (modern commercial breaks are considerably longer). They say it won't be now... I'm skeptical.

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Time Enough At Last... my favorite as well. You have good taste, friend.

Yeah, I used to watch SCI-FI's bi-annual marathon religiously. I own the boxset now so I no longer see any need. Besides, the series was always heavily edited for network play in the past (modern commercial breaks are considerably longer). They say it won't be now... I'm skeptical.

Where did you get your boxset? I looked a few years ago at FYE, but that place is way over-priced. I guess, I could try online somewhere.

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You know I have a thing too for I Am The Night - Color Me Black. A lesser known episode, but one that I think holds its own among some of the more popular "classics."

That one don't strike a bell with me. I often have to look up the names for episodes that I like because I never learned the titles.
Another one of my favorites is ""Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?".

I usually watch it but I own every season on DVD and I have a 52 inch TV coming next week so I will probably sit down and finish watching them all. I think I'm only partially into the 3rd season or maybe even still on season 2.
My favorite episode is The Howling Man.

Though I'm not going to be able to watch the Twilight Zone NY's marathon, I've been a big fan of the original b&w show since I first caught re-reruns of this series back in the '80's on late night TV. Incredible stuff. Obviously the B. Shatner episode "Nightmare at 20,000 feet" is classic & iconic, but there were numerous other great episodes as well, including "To Serve Man", "Kick the Can", "Nick of Time", "Night of the Meek", "The Hitchiker" (creepy!), "Back There" (classic), etc. This show was a great example of how strong writing/acting/plots are important, and that you don't have to have fancy CGI effects to have a quality TV show. I have long considered buying the definitive DVD set of the whole series, but haven't done so yet.

Also worth noting:

- The '80's Twilight Zone series was excellent - I may even like this more than the original series. Granted, it's not as well-known as the '60's version, but I was watching these '80's episodes as they were first coming out (unlike the original), so nostalgia plays a big part in my feelings towards this revamp. The opening sequence with the spider & the doll's head are disturbing & iconic (to me, at least). Good episodes of this series include: "Shatterday" (with a young Bruce Willis), "Nightcrawlers", "Paladin of the Lost Hour (written by H. Ellison)", a great re-make of "Night of the Meek", etc.

- There was another re-vamp of the show circa 2002-ish; I saw all of these episodes as well, but this series wasn't nearly as good as the first two. However, there were a handful of solid episodes here.

- The 1983 "Twlight Zone" movie was, overall, quite good, especially the first time-travel story. However, the re-make of "Nightmare at 20,000 feet (w/J. Lithgow)" was very sub-par when compared to the original.

Marilyn Venable, who wrote the short story that the classic Twilight Zone
episode "Time Enough At Last" is based on, at the senior residence she calls
home in El Cerrito on Nov. 29, 2012.

A venerable woman of 85 living in a retirement community in El Cerrito.
A self-described loner with a passion for the printed page, burdened by thick
glasses and a lifelong fear of breaking them somewhere, unable to get them repaired.

If this scenario sounds vaguely familiar, replace Marilyn with Burgess Meredith
as the bookish little character, Henry Bemis. Trade "somewhere" for the bleak,
black-and-white landscape of a man-made apocalypse, everything gone but the book
stacks in the public library. Then throw in a pair of shattered spectacles, rev
up a truckload of irony and travel into another dimension, of sight, of sound,
of mind. At the signpost up ahead, your next stop -- one of the all-time classic
episodes of ... "The Twilight Zone".